Ernest Hemingway / Riggs, Kate

Presents the life and writing career of Ernest Hemingway focusing on his childhood, parents, and his military service as an ambulance driver. Also discusses his early writing, his marriages and two sons, and his continuing interest in bull-fighting and Mexico. Concludes with a description of his suicide and his legacy of the Nobel Prize for literature.

A biography of American novelist and short-story writer Ernest Hemingway, discussing his childhood in Oak Park, Illinois, his early exposure to music and the creative arts, his work as an ambulance driver during World War I, his personal life, and his development as an author. Includes photographs and a time line.